Author's
note: Finally I can update! Stupid family depriving me of computer
and anime time! Ugh.. anyways enjoy, and stay tuned afterwards for a
quick word from our characters.

Oh
and poor Lorenzo, he has too much pride…

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Lorenzo
sighed, resting his head on the window next to his fireplace. He was
bored. He could admit that. It just wasn't the way he wanted to
spend the last few hours of his life. He needed drama; he needed
tears and blood, he needed-

"HEY!
LORENZO-shit, dude, what was my line again?" Lorenzo glanced down
from his windowpane to see Odie and Benny positioned in front of the
church.

Lorenzo
smiled, amused. This was just begging for some torture. "…Pitiful…"
He murmured, but his eyes still watched.

Benny
whispered into Odie's ear, and Odie glared back up at Lorenzo
determined. "HEY, AH, LORENZO! I'm GONNA TAKE A LEAK ON THIS
CHURCH! COME AND GET ME! NANANANA!"

As
Odie moved forward as though he were going to carry it out, Lorenzo
turned red a little. "…How immature…" He kept his eyes glued
to the kids down below.

As
Odie and Benny backed off, Mouse and Tad stepped forward. Tad showed
no expression, but Lorenzo could sense some fear in this one human.
Mouse showed it through his face as well.

"Hey,
Tad!" Mouse called nervously, making sure it was loud enough for
Lorenzo to hear.

"Yeah?"
Tad's voice shook.

"This
is one huge church! Do ya think Lorenzo is compensating for
something?"

Lorenzo
blushed furiously. "Now, I'm mad…"

Down
below, the kids got into their positions in order to act a new plan
formulated by Benny, Tad, and Odie. So you know it had to be
dangerous.

Suddenly,
the wind swirled dangerously around them and dust kicked up into
their eyes. When they wiped it from their faces, they saw Lorenzo
standing before them.

"I
was going to let this go, but such insults should never go
unpunished. You brats had your chance."

From
inside the church, Lucretia bent her head up. "Lorenzo's gone."
Sweeping an unwilling Errie into her arms, she listened at the church
door.

She
had a plan too, but only if Errie would cooperate. Not to mention,
she had to buy more time somehow. "Will you be quiet?" Lucretia
lifted Errie as though to throw him across the room. Errie hushed
down.

"Thank
you, now listen! I have a plan, but unfortunately it involves your
friends…"

Meanwhile,
the group outside couldn't help but to smile at Lorenzo's threat.
Making sure that Celeste, Tad, Mouse, and Zachary had covered the
church's door.

"That
doesn't sound like a surrender to me," said Odie, chilled to the
bone.

Lorenzo
stopped and glared at Odie with his head turned to the side. "You're
fun, kids! Haha!" The church doors flew open from behind him,
revealing Errie and Lucretia's hiding place. "Very well played,
but how about this?"

He
calmly walked over to Lucretia and tried to snag Errie out of her
hands. "Sorry," he said, punching her in the gut. Lucretia bent
over, coughing and dropped Errie. Now he was in Lorenzo's hands.

Lucretia,
sputtering, gasped, "You knew he was-"

Lorenzo
smiled bitterly. "Oh, it hurts me that you kids would underestimate
me so. Shame on all of you." He gave a tiny chuckle. "I'm a
lost cause, of course. It's no secret. Still, I can always have fun
with some stupid mortals before I die."

No
one dared to make a move. "A cat?" Benny cried, uncertain why
Odie had froze. "What's wrong?"

Odie
had serious look on his face. He scanned the cat from head to toe and
then he saw it. Dark eyes, very much like his. "No, it's-it's-

Lucretia
had managed to regain composure. "Errie." She managed to spit
out.

Lorenzo,
ignoring Lucretia, held the cat in front of Odie's face. "How
about it Odie? I'll kill Errie here and now, and in turn, you'll
kill me. It's a simple trade, isn't it?"

Odie
said nothing, but he kept his eyes on Errie's small wriggling form.
"…."

"Yeah,"
said Odie in a hoarse voice. "You can have Lucretia and Izzy if you
want too."

Lucretia
glanced at Odie in disappointment. Even she had shown her true
feelings for her so –called friends, but Odie still wouldn't
crack, not even after finding his long lost cousin. "Odie…"
She muttered in slight fury.

Lorenzo
paused as though he were trying to think about it. "Well, it's a
nice bargain, but-

He
didn't finish. Odie, in the blink of an eye, darted up to Lorenzo.
Swinging his fist back, he punched Lorenzo in the face. Lorenzo,
taken aback from the shock, fell back. Errie went flying. Odie jumped
to grab at him.

Errie
never fell down to the ground. Everything swirled and the scene went
black. All he could remember was his friends running towards Lorenzo,
Odie, and him, trying to grab at someone else.

"Huh?"
he heard Odie.

"What
the?" Lucretia.

"Not
this!" Lorenzo.

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"Ungh,"
Errie awoke in a strange place. It was quiet. Peaceful, almost.
Grassy fields covered the area and beautiful trees were everywhere to
be seen. "Where am I?"

Then
he noticed something different. "Hey! I'm human!" He felt his
clothes and his body just to make sure.

Then,
there was a voice behind him. "Of course you are. Pfff…." He
turned to see Lorenzo, relaxed against an oak tree, eating an apple.
He stared at Errie with a glint of anger and guilt.

Lorenzo
rolled his eyes and took another bite from his apple. "Yeah. And?"
He gestured with his hands, trying to pull more from Errie.

"You
tried to kill me." Errie repeated angrily.

"Shut
up," said Lorenzo stubbornly. "Besides this is all Odie's
fault! If he hadn't grabbed at your soul, we wouldn't be here!"

"What
do you mean?" Errie forgot his anger for a moment.

"After
Odie punched me he grabbed you and in the hype of the moment, the
rest of your bratty friends grabbed at you and me too. It set off a
chain reaction between their souls as well and so now we are stuck in
each other's souls."

"But
why?" Errie asked, trying to soak it all in. "Why can't they
just let us out of their souls?"

Lorenzo
sighed. "Usually, we'd be out of this mess by now, but your
friends are special. They want to tell us something."

Tell
us something…" Errie pondered.

"And
judging by that over there-" Errie looked to were he pointed and
saw a large coffin in the middle of the plains appear-"Odie's
soul is first."

"Odie!?"

"Indeed,"
said Lorenzo, strolling to the coffin. "well, let's see what the
problem is…oh, that typical. A funeral is being prepared. The one
thing that bothers Odie is his death."

What's
wrong with that?" asked Errie indignantly.

Lorenzo
laughed. "Oooh, a little defiant, aren't we, Errie? Just like
your cousin. There's nothing wrong with it, of course." His face
twisted into distaste. "Odie's just whining about the fact that
he thinks that no one cared that he died."

Just
as Lorenzo had finished, a scream echoed out through the area. "NO
ONE DOES CARE!"

Odie
appeared before the two, hovering in the air. His eyes were dark and
he looked tired and disturbed.

"Odie!"

Lorenzo,
not surprised, folded his arms. "There you are. Why are you hiding
in your own soul?" Despite how cruel Lorenzo sounded, Errie thought
he heard a little pity in his tone.

Odie
sat on his coffin and frowned. "You're death, right? So you out
of all people should understand me. No one else in my actual life
cared that I was murdered! Even my own mother forgot…"

"Again,
you're whining," said Lorenzo insultingly.

"Oh
yeah?" Odie challenged. "Name one person from my past life that
cared for me."

Lorenzo
smiled. Errie was surprised. Lorenzo's smile was warm and
understanding rather than torturing amusement. Lorenzo floated above
Odie and pointed. "Well, from the looks of your gravestone over
there, I'd say young Errie cares."

Odie
and Errie glanced over at a small, barely noticeable grave marker
where a young dark-haired boy was bent down at it. The boy held a
heavy book in his hands.

"…I
don't really know what to say, but here," he said, putting the
book down on the grave. "I brought this for you. Remember? You got
this for me for Christmas, but I kind of think you need it more than
I do. Here." After a closer look, Odie could see it was a bible.

Lorenzo
watched the younger version of Errie disappear from Odie's soul
with a look of satisfaction. Putting a hand on Odie's shoulder, he
said, "People forget, but they don't really forget if you know
what I mean. Somehow we always find away back to each other. In life
or," He glared Odie in the eyes, "in death."

"Like
how Lucretia and I found each other. It's the same for you in
Errie."

Odie
snapped his hand of his shoulder. "What is it with you? You're
not that important, you know!"

Lorenzo
chuckled. "No, I'm not. Just more so than I'd like to be
anyways."

"Whatever-hey!"
Odie cried. "You guys are fading awa-

Everything
turned back once more.

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And
now, a word from the characters.

Odie:
So, uh, NeededSoul, have you thought about the death idea I gave you
for Lorenzo?

Me:
You mean the one involving strapping Lorenzo to a chair and making
him watch Dora the Explorer while you electricute him to death?'